Vision reveals what the touch already knows Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses touchvision
The quality of an architectural reality The quality of an architectural reality seems to depend fundamentally on peripheral vision, which enfolds the subject in the space...neurological investigations suggest that our processes of perception and cognition advance from the instantaneous grasp of entities towards the identification of details, rather than the other way around. Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses vision
The deception of color In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually. What counts here – first and last – is not so-called knowledge of so-called facts, but vision – seeing. Josef Albers, Interaction of Color visioncolor
Color Controversy A Website by Leo Robinovitch colorcontroversy.com So some friends and I were talking about colors one day and how we all see colors a bit differently and how that's neat. But is there a color that is interpreted differently THE MOST? Is there a most controversial color? Well, (if I contrive an ongoing survey and collect data about it), the answer is yes, of course! colorvisionperceptionmicrosites
Nototo An Application www.nototo.app The visual workspace for notes. Humans have incredible visual-spatial memory. Leverage that with Nototo. Spatial software referencesSpatial Interfaces notetakingmemoryspacevision
Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should Know An Essay by Michael Sorkin www.readingdesign.org The distance of a whisper.CornersWant, need, affordWhat the brick really wants.Borders+3 More 136 things every web developer should know before they burn out and turn to landscape painting or nude modelling architecturedesigncollections
Want, need, afford What the client wants. What the client thinks it wants. What the client needs. What the client can afford. What the planet can afford. ux
What the brick really wants. The material finds the right objectWe are working against the grain of the woodThe joy of the humble brick material
Logjam That there is a big danger in working in a single medium. The logjam you don’t even know you’re stuck in will be broken by a shift in representation. creativitymedia